Diet Debacle!- The Reason(s) My Diet failed!

So a couple of weeks ago, actually over a month ago, I said I would be starting a new diet which included foods on the "Essential Food" list found here. I had this great plan that I would overhaul my diet and my life and I would document it all here on my blog. 

My diet failed miserably. I was too embarrassed to even write about it. After about a week, I was back to eating pizza. Here are some of the reasons why:

It's not always about what you eat, it's when you eat: 

My eating patterns were really bad. I was in the final weeks of my undergrad and I was under a heap of stress. I was not eating breakfast and I was eating more at the end of the day. The new diet was suposed to give me more energy but I was feeling so burnt out that I was having trouble getting out of bed. 

Structure! Structure! Structure!: 

I didn't plan how I would include these new foods into my diet. I realise now that I should have charted out exactly how I would combine these foods into meals. Without planning I could not really reap any benefits from the diet. 

Emotional diet rather than physical diet:

During the last weeks of school I let myself become overwhelmed by stress. I think that was half the reason why I was so burnt out. Stress is my downfall. Everytime I have more than two things to do at a time it feels like my head is going to explode. 

I'm learning to deal with it by trying to balance my time. It's something I still have to work on every day. 

Lessons

From this, I learnt that changing something as fundamental as your eating pattern is not easy. It requires a lot of preparation which I didn't do enough of at the time. 

I hope I gave you some food for thought.

(stewed beef and rice, not on the list but oh so good!)